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I have been seeing a lot of comparisons in the media I follow comparing Ashli Babbitt to Horst Wessel, but to your credit, you were first I encountered. Taking the analogy further, how did the Weimar govt battle propagandists from 1919 to 1933? By allowing it to spread to the point of discrediting actual journalists and "real news" as “Lügenpresse” or "lying press" until Hitler controlled the media before he controlled government. WaPo wrote about it ~5 years ago:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/10/24/the-ugly-history-of-luegenpresse-a-nazi-slur-shouted-at-a-trump-rally/

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